I found several tutorials about how to get Cisco Anyconnect VPN software running for ubuntu 64 bit. However, I'm a very minimalistic person and I knew that the instructions I'd seen Here where overboard. I couldn't figure out why I actually needed to install firefox 32 bit if I only needed some libs from the 32bit version of firefox.
I tried installing the libraries (ia32libs and lib32nssmdns) and then symlinking to them from /opt/cisco/vpn/lib

I find all kinds of tutorials on the net about how to install php/apache/mysql for Ubuntu.
Its incredibly simple to get the basics setup, but creating a methodology for doing real development, for multiple clients simultaneously, is a bit more complicated.

Typically I would start out with something like this:

sudo aptitude install php5 mysql-server apache2.2 php5-mysql php5-mysqli